Research lectures, seminars and events

The events listed in this area are research seminars, workshops and lectures
hosted by Durham University departments and research institutes. If you are not a member of the University, but wish to
enquire about attending one of the events please contact the organiser or host department.

The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence is a combinatorial bijection which plays an important role in the theory of Young tableaux and provides a natural framework for the study of longest increasing subsequences in random permutations and related percolation problems. I will give some background on this and then explain how a birational version of the RSK correspondence provides a similar framework for the study of GL(n)-Whittaker functions and random polymers.